"included on the original video release of the film); ""Roller Coaster Rabbit"" (1990), shown in front of ""Dick Tracy""; and ""Trail Mix-Up"" (1993), shown before ""A Far Off Place"". Despite being produced by Disney, these shorts contained a heavy slapstick style similar to Warner Bros. ""Looney Tunes"" or Tex Avery cartoons. He makes two cameos voiced by Steven Spielberg and Frank Welker in the show, once with Jessica Rabbit. Roger is also a character in Wolf's novel, ""Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?"". In the book, Roger Rabbit is sure that Clark Gable has not only stolen the role of Rhett Butler"
"theaters. In the 1990s animated series ""Tiny Toon Adventures"", Porky appears as the mentor of Hamton J. Pig. Porky also made cameo appearances on ""Animaniacs"" and ""Histeria!"". Porky has a cameo at the end of the Disney/Amblin film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), where, paired with Disney's Tinkerbell, has the duty of closing the movie with his famous line ""Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks!"". It was the last time that Mel Blanc voiced Porky. Porky is the star of the Super NES video game ""Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday"" (1995). He also made appearances in the games """", """", """", """", ""Bugs Bunny"
"but it was overshadowed by Don Bluth's ""An American Tail"", another film featuring mice characters that competed directly with ""Mouse Detective"" in theaters. In 1988, the studio collaborated with Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, producing ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", a comedic detective caper that mixed live action and animation while paying homage to the Golden Age of Cartoons. Disney characters appeared with characters from Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal Pictures and other rival studios for the first time in animation history. The film was a huge box-office success, winning four Academy Awards, reviving interest in animation made for theaters, and popularizing"
"Robert Zemeckis Robert Lee Zemeckis (; born May 14, 1952) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects. He first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of ""Romancing the Stone"" (1984) and the science-fiction comedy ""Back to the Future"" film trilogy, as well as the live-action/animated comedy ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988). In the 1990s he directed ""Death Becomes Her"" and then diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's ""Forrest Gump"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. The film itself won Best Picture."
"film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Heckle and Jeckle Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox. The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow-billed magpies; and both were voiced at different times by Sid Raymond (1946–47), Ned Sparks (1947–51), Roy Halee (1951–61), Dayton Allen (1956–66) and Frank Welker (1979–81). While in the pilot for ""Curbside"", Heckle was voiced by Toby Huss and Jeckle was voiced by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. Heckle and Jeckle have been licensed for toys, T-shirts, puzzles, games, salt"
"confirmed, Zemeckis met with screenwriting partner Bob Gale to create a story for the sequel. Zemeckis and Gale would later regret that they ended the first one with Jennifer in the car with Marty and Doc Brown, because it required them to come up with a story that fit her in, rather than a whole new adventure. Gale wrote most of the first draft by himself, as Zemeckis was busy making ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". At first, the film was to take place in 1967, but Zemeckis later stated that the time paradoxes of it provided a good opportunity to"
"disappears before he can ask him if he still has a chance to change his ways. Willie the Giant makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" on a poster in a movie theater in Toontown. Willie is also a minor recurring character in the ""Mickey Mouse Clubhouse"" children's series. Here, he is friends with Mickey. He still lives in the sky, only this time in a giant farm house. Ortensia is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's wife. She appeared in the Oswald shorts starting with The Banker's Daughter, replacing Oswald's former love interest, a much more"
"Judge Doom Judge Doom is the main antagonist in the 1988 motion picture ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", portrayed by Christopher Lloyd. He is depicted as a much feared, cruel and malicious judge of Toontown who is responsible for the framing of the titular character and the killing of Eddie Valiant's brother within the film. Judge Doom is an original character from the script of the film created by screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. Many actors were considered for the role of the character such as Tim Curry and Christopher Lee. The reviews of Christopher Lloyd's role as Judge"
"Charles Fleischer Charles Fleischer (born August 27, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician, best known for appearing in films such as ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"", ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", ""The Polar Express"", ""Rango"", and ""We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"". He also reprised the role of Roger Rabbit in the ""Roger Rabbit"" theatrical shorts. After beginning his career on the comedy club circuit, Charles Fleischer's first big break in comedy television came when he made an appearance on ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"". Fleischer was born and raised in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1950. He attended"
"Heathcliff, in the early 1980s. In the 1983 live-action film ""Strange Brew"", Blanc voiced the father of Bob and Doug MacKenzie, at the request of comedian Rick Moranis. In the 1988 live-action/animated movie ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit,"" Blanc reprised several of his classic ""Looney Tunes"" roles (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Sylvester), but left Yosemite Sam to Joe Alaskey (who later became one of Blanc's regular replacements until his death in 2016). The film was one of the few Disney projects Blanc was involved in. Blanc died just a year after the film's release. His final recording session was for"
"Southampton College of Long Island University and studied acting at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. Fleischer has written a science paper regarding the nature of gamma ray bursts that appears on the Cornell University Library website. Fleischer is best known as the voices of Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy, and Psycho in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". After the film's success, he continued to perform the voice of Roger in several Disney television and theme park appearances at several of the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and in three follow-up short subjects to the original film. Other voice roles for Fleischer include"
"Cooper's bodyguard while Coop scouts locations for his next movie—a screwball comedy titled ""Hi, Toon!"" But Eddie's dream job quickly turns into a nightmare. The film's being shot in Toontown, and Coop's co-star turns out to be none other than Roger Rabbit. Eddie's a big fan of Coop. Of Roger? Not so much. Now a sinister hoodlum is threatening to murder Coop if the movie gets made. Before long, Eddie, Coop, Roger, and the ever-glamorous Jessica Rabbit are embroiled in a mystery that could destroy Toontown. When Roger bites off more Toonish trouble than Eddie can swallow, the answer to"
"1985. Universal repackaged the cartoons for another syndicated ""Woody Woodpecker Show"" in 1987. A year later, Woody cameoed in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", voiced by Cherry Davis, near the end of the film. Woody Woodpecker reappeared in the Fox Kids series ""The New Woody Woodpecker Show"", which ran on Saturday mornings from 1999 to 2002, voiced by Billy West. For this series, Woody was redesigned more like his mid-1940s look (1944 to 1949), pushing back his crest and making his eyes green again. Winnie Woodpecker, who had debuted in ""Real Gone Woody"" (1954), became a semi-regular character as Woody's primary"
"to September 2011, he hosted his own weekly web show ""Fleischer's Universe"" on Ustream.tv, produced by Brad Wyman. Charles Fleischer's science paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0518 Charles Fleischer Charles Fleischer (born August 27, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and musician, best known for appearing in films such as ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"", ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", ""The Polar Express"", ""Rango"", and ""We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"". He also reprised the role of Roger Rabbit in the ""Roger Rabbit"" theatrical shorts. After beginning his career on the comedy club circuit, Charles Fleischer's first big break in comedy television came when"
"Holly Williams-Brock. Animated shorts and Features Titles in Live-action films Richard Williams (animator) Richard Edmund Williams (born March 19, 1933) is a Canadian–British animator, voice actor, and writer, best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988) and for his unfinished feature film ""The Thief and the Cobbler"" (1993). He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to ""What's New Pussycat?"" (1965) and ""A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"" (1966) and title and linking sequences in ""The Charge"
"was in several television shows including ""Night Court"", ""Head of the Class"", ""Back to the Future"", and ""Spitting Image: The 1987 Movie Awards"". His first major film was ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" as Yosemite Sam. Alaskey provided a vocal Gleason impersonation in the ""Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy"" episode of Bakshi-Hyde Ventures' """" in 1988, and a Cary Grant impersonation in ""The Bride of Mighty Mouse"" episode from the same season. Alaskey did voice work for non-Warner Bros. characters. He has voiced Grandpa Lou Pickles on ""Rugrats"" (inheriting the role after David Doyle's death in 1997). He voiced Lou again in the"
"of his equipment. While he stands behind the cardboard muscular man he is glad that he finally resembles a muscular man. """"Goofy Gymnastics"""" is one of Goofy's most popular and famous cartoons. The cartoon is also shown in ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)"" during the scene where Roger and Eddie hide in a cinema. Roger Rabbit laughs out loud with the cartoon, praises Goofy's timing and finesse and claims he is a ""genius."" However, this is an anachronism, since """"Who Framed Roger Rabbit"""" takes place in the year 1947, while ""Goofy Gymnastics"" was released in 1949. This cartoon was also"
"who is accused of murdering a wealthy businessman. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit""s story in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg, and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film, and Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer"
"prior to Barry Levinson's official involvement. It was Spielberg who convinced screenwriter Ronald Bass to make the character of Raymond Babbitt as an autistic savant. Spielberg dropped out as he was obligated to direct ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"". Spielberg regrets not directing ""Rain Man"". In 1989, Spielberg discussed with J.J. Abrams the possibilites of making a sequel to the successful ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" feature film. The sequel's plot would have been Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman, and Richie Davenport traveling west to seek Roger's mother, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (Roger's future wife), a struggling Hollywood actress."
"game. Mario (then known as Jumpman) was originally supposed to be Popeye, Donkey Kong was originally Bluto, and the character Pauline was originally Olive Oyl, but when Nintendo was unable to acquire the rights to use the actual franchise characters, it decided to create original characters instead. The 1988 Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" featured many classic cartoon characters, and the absence of Popeye was noted by some critics. Popeye (along with Bluto and Olive Oyl) actually had a cameo role planned for the film. However, since the Popeye cartoons were based on a comic strip, Disney"
"but declined to work for the inexperienced Darabont. Darabont said he cast Robbins after seeing his performance in the 1990 psychological horror ""Jacob's Ladder"". When Robbins was cast, he insisted that Darabont use experienced cinematographer Roger Deakins, who had worked with him on ""The Hudsucker Proxy"". To prepare for the role, Robbins observed caged animals at a zoo, spent an afternoon in solitary confinement, spoke with prisoners and guards, and had his arms and legs shackled for a few hours. Cast initially as young convict Tommy, Brad Pitt dropped out following his success in ""Thelma & Louise"" (the role went"
"Lane. Also, the dockland scenes in the ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Dalek Invasion of Earth"" were enacted there. A 1987 edition of the ""South Bank Show"" about the London Underground was introduced by Melvyn Bragg, who appeared out of the fog carrying a torch on the platform at Wood Lane station. In the 1988 animation movie ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" directed by Robert Zemeckis, the scenes for the Acme factory were filmed in the former power house (later known as the Dimco Building) in the Wood Lane Depot (now part of the Westfield Shopping Centre). It is a listed building"
"prolific voice actor Billy West as Woody. ""Woody Woodpecker"" cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title ""The Woody Woodpecker Show"", which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Woody has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. He also made a cameo appearance alongside many other famous cartoon characters in the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". Woody Woodpecker and friends are also icons at the Universal Studios Theme Parks worldwide, as well as the PortAventura Park in the PortAventura World, Salou,"
"yellow-tinted glasses; he also carries a pocketwatch, as well as a cane which is revealed to be a saber in disguise, for use in emergency situations. During the writing process, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were unsure of whom to include as the villain in the plot of ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with newly created character Judge Doom. Price and Seaman based the scheme of Judge Doom of destroying Toontown for a freeway by a planned unproduced sequel of"
"Philpott left the school to go on the road with NoFit, at first working as part of the big top tent crew, and he found that erecting and disassembling the tent drew crowds by itself. He eventually became a stage manager and also performed with the circus, traveling with them for several summer tours throughout the United Kingdom until the mid-1990s. Toby Philpott made a brief return to the movies to participate in the 1988 film, ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", a comedy that combined live-action film with animation. David Barclay was tasked with putting together a team of puppeteers to"
"Sébastien Dhavernas Sébastien Dhavernas (born 19 January 1950) is a Canadian actor. Dhavernas was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is the husband of actress Michèle Deslauriers and the father of actress Caroline Dhavernas and voice actress Gabrielle Dhavernas. He completed his classical studies at Collège Stanislas, did a year in Sociology at McGill University, and subsequently attended the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. In addition to acting, Dhavernas has done French-language voice overdubbing, attaining some fame as the voice of Roger Rabbit in the French-language version of the film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". In 1989, he urged the government of"
"story is about how Roger met Jessica, his future wife. Wolf has stated the film is currently wending its way through Disney. In November 2016, while promoting his latest film ""Allied"", in England, Zemeckis stated that the sequel ""moves the story of Roger and Jessica Rabbit into the next few years of period film, moving on from film noir to the world of the 1950s"". He also stated that the sequel would feature a ""digital Bob Hoskins"", as Eddie Valiant would return in ""ghost form"". While the director went on to state that the script is ""terrific"" and the film"
"of a detective story. According to """", Valiant tends to eat jellybeans quite a bit as he gave up drinking. In the novel ""Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?"", Valiant has once again vowed to no longer take any Toon cases, but is forced to do so when Baby Herman is found dead. Eddie Valiant Edward ""Eddie"" Valiant is the main protagonist of the novel ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"", and the film adaptation, ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". In the original novel ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"", Eddie Valiant is a fictional modern day California private detective hired by comic book star Roger Rabbit"
"in Ireland, for his portrayal of a homeless man in an independent film entitled ""Homefree"". Bob Elkins Bob Elkins (born 1932) is an American character actor who has appeared in movies, plays and television productions. He is sometimes credited as Robert Elkins. Bob Elkins was born in 1932 in Mount Hope, West Virginia, the son of a struggling coal miner. At age four, he moved with his father, mother and two sisters to Muncie, Indiana, where his father took a job at a lawnmower company. At about that time, the elder Elkins inexplicably became withdrawn and stopped talking to his"
"Cotton Club"" offers a history of the club in the context of race relations in the 1930s and the conflicts between Madden, Dutch Schultz, Vincent ""Mad Dog"" Coll, Lucky Luciano, and Ellsworth ""Bumpy"" Johnson. In the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", the fictional Ink and Paint Club is based on the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was briefly depicted in the 1997 movie ""Hoodlum"" featuring Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, and Andy García as the site of a confrontation between Schultz (Roth) and Johnson (Fishburne). The club is mentioned in the novelization of the 1998 """" episode ""Far Beyond the"
"However, whereas most of the featured cartoons are single shorts or sometimes isolated clips, the footage of Wile E. and Road Runner is taken from several different cartoons and compiled to run as one extended sequence. Wile E. and the Road Runner have two cameo roles in Robert Zemeckis' ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" first silhouetted when the elevator maneuvered by Droopy goes up, and then during the final scene in Marvin Acme's factory with several other studio characters. Wile E. and the Road Runner appear as members of the Tune Squad team in ""Space Jam"". There, Wile E. rigs one"
"stumbling upon the filming of a Western helmed by a director resembling Steven Spielberg), Jackson soon disguises himself as a rabbit named Spike, using a costume from one of the film sets (imbued with animatronic properties using Claymation, giving a similar combined-media effect as ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" but with more obvious bluescreening), but ends up taunting the fans into chasing him once they realize it is him. Michael steals a motorcycle in order to flee, with the fans and paparazzi (now also appearing in Claymation form) giving chase in various other, more cartoonish vehicles. During the chase, he morphs"
"seminal earlier work ""A Wild Hare"". Willoughby later appears in other Warner Brothers animated shorts, including ""The Heckling Hare"" (1941), ""The Crackpot Quail"" (1941), and ""Nutty News"" (1942), as the lead dog of a fox hunting party. A fundamentally similar character, Laramore, appears in ""To Duck or Not to Duck"" (1943), albeit with a fully brown coat of fur. Willoughby's brief career was essentially over before the end of World War II. Willoughby was planned to be made as a cameo in the deleted scene ""Acme's Funeral"" from the 1988 film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"". He also appears with other"